“Marriage has now taken the form of divorce: a prolonged and impassioned negotiation as to how things shall be divided. (from "Feminism,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The two families, sundered in the ruin of a friendship, were united again first in new friendship and then in mariage. My… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says. By such… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A man who does not ask to much become the promise of his land. His marriage married to his place, he waits… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Marriage, in what is evidently its most popular version, is now on the one hand an intimate “relationship” involving (ideally) two successful… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“It is easy enough to see why women came to object to the role of Blondie, a mostly decorative custodian of a… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Marriage, in what is evidently its most popular version, is now on the one hand an intimate “relationship” involving (ideally) two successful… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“A farmer, as one of his farmer correspondents once wrote to Liberty Hyde Bailey, is "a dispenser of the 'Mysteries of God.'"… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Analogies have tied things together for me, personally. The fundamental one for me is the analogy between your relationship to your spouse… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“...we begin to understand marriage as the insistently practical union that it is. We begin to understand it, that is, as it… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“A purposeless virtue is a contradiction in terms. Virtue, like harmony, cannot exist alone; a virtue must lead to harmony between one… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“A farmer, as one of his farmer correspondents once wrote to Liberty Hyde Bailey, is “a dispenser of the ‘Mysteries of God.’”… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Marriage [is] not just a bond between two people but a bond between those two people and their forebears, their children, and… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Lovers must not, like usurers, live for themselves alone. They must finally turn from their gaze at one another back toward the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If they had only themselves to consider, lovers would not need to marry, but they must think of others and of other… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“In modern marriage, then, what was once a difference of work became a division of work. And in this division the household… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“This determination that nurturing should become exclusively a concern of women served to signify to both sexes that neither nurture nor womanhood… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The forsaking of all others is a keeping of faith, not just with the chosen one, but with the ones forsaken. The… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“What marriage offers - and what fidelity is meant to protect - is the possibility of moments when what we have chosen… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Marriage, in what is evidently its most popular version, is now on the one hand an intimate 'relationship' involving (ideally) two successful… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we burst, we… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
“The two families, sundered in the ruin of a friendship, were united again first in new friendship and then in mariage. My grandfather made… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
The living can't quit living because the world has turned terrible and people they love and need are killed. They can't because they don't.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
“I knew a man who, in the age of chain-saws, went right on cutting his wood with a handsaw and an axe. He was… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
“The concept of country, homeland, dwelling place becomes simplified as "the environment" -- that is, what surrounds us, we have already made a profound… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
“That we can prescribe the terms of our own success, that we can live outside or in ignorance of the Great Economy are the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
“The mind that comes to rest is tended In ways that it cannot intend: Is borne, preserved, and comprehended By what it cannot comprehend.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either. — Wendell Berry Copy Share
The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all. — Wendell Berry Copy Share
I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I want it… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
![“Marriage [is] not just a bond between two people but a bond between those two people and their forebears, their children, and their neighbors... Lovers must not . . . live for themselves alone. . . . They say their vows to the community as much as to one another, and the community gathers around…” quote by Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b3/wendell-berry-236_children_marriage-is-not-just-a-bond-between-two_2572658.jpg)
